Its been a week since Lizzie was bred.   Since she looks and acts the same as she usually does, I decided to do some research to figure out just what’s going.   I stumbled across these two articles, “Understanding and Monitoring Canine Pregnancy” and “Canine Pregnancy:  Predicting Parturition and Timing Events of Gestation” which have really good (though really scientific) descriptions of what is happening when.

In the past seven days since Lizzie has been bred, the sperm have been finding and fertilizing eggs.  Fertilized eggs are splitting and turning into 4-8 celled embryos.

I was hoping to find a clip of what was actually happening to add a visual element, but no luck.  I did however move this DVD to the top of my Netflix queue: